According to Rocket News 24, thefarmer posted on Twitterthat he was raising some perfectly ordinary red chickens, when one day he went to look at the egg box and check on their laying progress, and he discovered three newborn baby kittens in there, cuddled up with the eggs and one of the hens.

The farmer says there are 400 chickens in the hen house, and normally they would gang up and attack any non-chicken animals that tried to move into their enclosure with all their eggs, but the hens seem to have decided the kittens are OK, and have been mothering them along with the eggs.

The mother cat has reportedly been dropping by to feed the kittens, but she and the hens seem to have reached an understanding, as there have not been any cat or chicken fights, and she hasn’t tried to eat any of the chickens.